{"id":2983,"date":"2023-03-31T18:59:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T18:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/soci\/?page_id=2983"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:44:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T19:44:26","slug":"working-groups","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/soci\/working-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"Working Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h3><strong>ERI Graduate Student Working Group on Race and Immigration<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The ERI Immigration and Race graduate student working group seeks to be a professional network for graduate students interested in immigration, integration, and race and ethnic relations research. The student group hosts workshops, discussion panels, and research presentations. To support our goal of being a community for scholarly development, meetings provide ample opportunities for the collaboration and sharing of members\u2019 work.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsoring Faculty: <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/jody-agius-vallejo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jody Agius Vallejo<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h3><strong>Ethnography of Politics Reading Group<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Ethnography of Politics Reading Group meets to read and discuss people&#8217;s fieldnotes about &#8220;political participation,&#8221; broadly defined.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsoring Faculty: <a href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/profile\/nina-eliasoph\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nina Eliasoph<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n  <\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n  \n    \n\n\n\n\n\n\n<div\n  class=\"cc--component-container cc--rich-text \"\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  >\n  <div class=\"c--component c--rich-text\"\n    \n      >\n\n    \n      \n<div class=\"f--field f--wysiwyg\">\n\n    \n  <h3><strong>Problem Solving Ethnography Workshop<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Problem Solving Ethnography is a new forum for ethnographically based paper drafts. Papers may treat any aspect of social problem solving or the social contexts that condition potential solutions. We invite ethnographic papers that explore in depth how actors construct or organize collectively around social problems, or how social contexts shape the effects of policies, projects or campaigns intended to ameliorate problems. We welcome papers employing a mix of evidence as long as the ethnographic component is substantial. We aim to support authors in generating convincing, research-based papers that move scholarly and\/or practitioner or public audiences. 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